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/ 31 January 2006
More than half the 658 000 jobs claimed by Statistics South Africa’s Labour Force Survey as having been created in South Africa in 2004/05 were in the informal hawker sector, leading critics to question Stats SA’s definitions and measurement of informal employment.
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/ 30 January 2006
Qatari Energy Minister Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah joined a growing chorus of voices on Monday calling for the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to leave production levels unchanged ahead of a meeting in Vienna on Tuesday. He said current high crude prices prevent any lowering of the cartel’s production level.
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/ 30 January 2006
Lesotho’s foreign minister was shot and wounded in a weekend attack at his house, a media report said on Monday. It quoted police as saying Monyane Moleleki was attacked by several gunmen as he arrived at his home in the capital, Maseru, after midnight on Sunday.
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/ 30 January 2006
Europe and the United States warned Iran over its nuclear ambitions on Monday and called on Russia and China to join in seeking United Nations action later this week, as Tehran asked for more time for a compromise. In Brussels, top officials from Britain, France and Germany met an Iranian delegation.
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/ 30 January 2006
Nam June Paik, the avant-garde composer who was credited with being the inventor of video art, has died. He was 74. Paik played a pivotal role in using video as a form of artistic expression. A member of the Fluxus art movement, Paik combined the use of music, video images and sculptures.
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/ 30 January 2006
Fireworks explosions killed 36 people and injured hundreds more in China as traditional Lunar New Year celebrations led to much mayhem as well as joy across the nation, officials and state media said on Monday. In the most serious accident, 36 people died when a storeroom full of fireworks exploded, Xinhua news agency said.
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/ 30 January 2006
The South African Communist Party has come out against a South African National Civic Organisation proposal for a presidential third term, saying the country is not short of progressive leadership. The SACP said it will never support a change of the two-term presidency.
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/ 30 January 2006
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s bid to have the sacking of 15 of its councillors reviewed will probably only happen after the local government elections, the IFP’s legal counsel said on Monday. Fifteen of the party’s councillors in the Abaqulusi municipality, near Ulundi, were sacked last year.
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/ 30 January 2006
Natural disasters were on the rise last year, leaving tens of millions of people destitute and in need of aid, but they claimed fewer lives, a United Nations monitoring body said on Monday. The overall death toll dropped to 91 900, with 73 338 of the dead in Pakistan’s quake zone alone.